Do you remember the last time you felt truly astonished?

Being so surprised by something incredible you just had to stop and take it in.

That same feeling that kids get when they see a magic trick or a rainbow.

For Kevin Warren, feeling astonishment is sort of a secret ingredient for why he loves his job.

Kevin is the president and CEO of the Chicago Bears.

Prior to that, he was the commissioner of the Big Ten Conference,

and prior to that, he was the CEO of the Minnesota Vikings.

Put simply, he's pretty remarkable.

So when talking to someone like Kevin, a serious high performer,

you think you'd hear stories of discipline and structure

and running on four hours of sleep.

And though I'm sure some of those things are there, that's not what he talked about.

He talked about the importance of pulling over to take a photo of a full moon and sending it to his friends.

And he talked about making sure a new employee has their name on their cubicle

and new business cards waiting for them on their first day of work.

It turns out, being astonished,

and creating astonishing experiences for others

is the missing piece of magic in so many of our careers. This is a bit of optimism.

You've never written a book, right?

I have not written one. I have a draft of a book that I wrote and I have a promise to myself that as soon as our

season ends this year hopefully after the Super Bowl I'm gonna pick it up and it'll probably take me just a couple

weeks to finish it. What's the book about? It's called Build Your Own Pool and it's a

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